Better late than never... just added my Phenom II X6 1090T burn-in and a Phenom II X2 I had sitting around to TRFrankenbot. 8 cores of folding goodness!

Here's a pic:

The X6 is on top, the X2 is underneath.

My F@h system monitoring page is here; the TRFrankenbot systems are the 2nd and 3rd ones down (system names "rauchbier" and "lambic"). The PPD projections on the monitoring page do NOT include the SMP bonus, so they're way low; I still haven't gotten around to modifying my web monitoring tool to calculate the bonuses properly...

Some other random thoughts:

- The stock cooler that came with the 1090T is frikkin' loud. I've got an extra CoolerMaster tower cooler somewhere in my piles o' stuff here, I think I will be replacing that cooler sooner rather than later.

- The 1090T is also serving as my Ubuntu 11.10 testbed. The default (Unity) desktop pisses me off a lot, and the optional legacy GNOME shell pisses me off a little (it's GNOME 3 now instead of GNOME 2, so it is only "legacy" in the sense that it is not Unity). Maybe it is time to try KDE again...

- At least the current Linux SMP F@h client on Ubuntu 11.10 doesn't need the runtime library hack to get it to run.

- Just noticed something... WTF is with my Athlon II X4 (system name "tripel", 4th one down on the monitoring page)? 5917.87 PPD can't be right... must have the wrong point value in my DB, or F@h screwed up the point calculation for this WU...

The years just pass like trains. I wave, but they don't slow down.-- Steven Wilson

Flying Fox wrote:Nice setup JBI, I like that ghetto fan blowing across the chipset heatsink using the crate's own holes.

That was a last minute afterthought, when I noticed that the chipset and VRMs seemed to be running pretty hot. You'd be surprised how toasty things can get with a motherboard sitting out in the open like that. Without the "wind tunnel" effect you normally get with a system inside a case, I think you end up with a cloud of stagnant warm air sitting over the motherboard that the CPU fan just keeps recirculating. If you put your hand at the far end of the motherboard (behind the CPU and VRMs) you can feel a very warm breeze coming off the motherboard from that fan.

There's also a 120mm fan laying down flat at the right rear corner of the crate, to ensure that the X2 system underneath gets some airflow too.

The whole setup is rather ghetto, and I thought it was apropos for TRFrankenbot... it's my 2011 Frankencrate!

Flying Fox wrote:Did you do something to make it not move from the spinning fan?

It's a fairly low CFM 80mm Scythe, so just the weight of the fan seems to do a pretty good job of keeping it in place. I've got the motherboard wedged up against it just to be sure.

The years just pass like trains. I wave, but they don't slow down.-- Steven Wilson

For the past week I've had three single core CPUs in the Frankie mix for about 350 total ppd and house heat. Hardly a blip on the efforts of Frankencrate, the bigadv SMPs, and high end GPUs. But for the next eight days and nights my 9600 GSO will add about ten times those ppd and two more single core CPUs should make for a total 4,000+ ppd blip